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Nov 14, 2019 12:01
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life is a joke posted:Why didn;t they just do a regular Halloween one last month? lol they did
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Nov 14, 2019 12:10
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Alright, the new one has a decent first act where they go to the school play and the kids wrote the plays, so it's plays of video game streamers and the masked singer. Decent gags. Someone else is doing that dead lady's voices, and it's noticeable with Martin but not with Sherri and Terri. This leads to Marge becoming a lumberjack and the Simpsons going to Portland. They drive past a bunch of actual streets Groening named characters after. It's kinda OK though. Marge gets jokes and motivation. It's still pretty bad. I proclaim this one not offensively bad.
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Nov 14, 2019 13:12
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Turkey Bart and Lisa’s faces are the perfect expression for why isn’t this loving show cancelled yet? Please, for the love of gently caress just let it die.
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Nov 14, 2019 13:14
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excuse me, what the gently caress
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Nov 14, 2019 13:20
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PostNouveau posted:Alright, the new one has a decent first act where they go to the school play and the kids wrote the plays, so it's plays of video game streamers and the masked singer. Decent gags. Someone else is doing that dead lady's voices, and it's noticeable with Martin but not with Sherri and Terri. Go to a neurologist
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Nov 14, 2019 13:53
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that's actually kind of funny
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Nov 14, 2019 15:37
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ulex minor posted:that's actually kind of funny Dont praise the machine.
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Nov 14, 2019 16:13
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PostNouveau posted:
Don't fall for this poo poo, people
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Nov 14, 2019 17:33
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ulex minor posted:that's actually kind of funny that episode (s13e03, "homer the moe") will turn 18 years old next week
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Nov 14, 2019 18:14
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A coworker of mine has a movie review blog, and he's reviewing Simpsons seasons as he watches them blind. He says he's only seen random episodes, none of which have been before season 15 or so. He skipped half of season 1, but seems to be enjoying season 2 so far. In his blog post about this, someone commented "Good luck pushing through the early years." I can understand not being hot on season 1, but the idea of someone thinking the early years are a low point is loving decaying my brain.
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Nov 14, 2019 20:07
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CodfishCartographer posted:A coworker of mine has a movie review blog, and he's reviewing Simpsons seasons as he watches them blind. He says he's only seen random episodes, none of which have been before season 15 or so. It's probably because more casual viewers don't really know when the good episodes are from. When they randomly see a season 1 episode they probably assume it was like that for a long time.
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Nov 14, 2019 20:22
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Nov 15, 2019 01:17
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https://mobile.twitter.com/thatbilloakley/status/1195016894962470912
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Nov 15, 2019 19:42
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https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1195495267895787520
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Nov 16, 2019 01:17
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Gonna take 5 months to rasterize those black bars
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Nov 16, 2019 02:55
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They'll fix it by chopping off the left and right sides
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Nov 16, 2019 06:09
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Patty (or selma) gets a little worked up watching Marge cut wood. It's weird
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Nov 16, 2019 12:26
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PostNouveau posted:Gonna take 5 months to rasterize those black bars They want people to stick around past the trial most likely
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Nov 16, 2019 15:37
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CodfishCartographer posted:but the idea of someone thinking the early years are a low point is loving decaying my brain. Can only assume that some people think the early seasons are boring as there isn't 30 gags a minute.
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Nov 16, 2019 16:50
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PostNouveau posted:Someone else is doing that dead lady's voices, and it's noticeable with Martin but not with Sherri and Terri. For some reason this bothers me more than it should. Show a modicum of respect and just retire the characters, they’re not important enough to keep around as zombies 
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Nov 16, 2019 17:34
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NiceGuy posted:For some reason this bothers me more than it should. Show a modicum of respect and just retire the characters, they’re not important enough to keep around as zombies If the show had evolved at all and maybe did something logical like age the characters X years, maybe they could've invigorated a lot of the voice cast with fresh people. On that note, was this something they ever considered? I remember being weirded out by even some of their earliest stories where they place Lisa or Bart into scenarios well beyond their suited ages like when Lisa dated Nelson. Anyway, it's not something I'd want them to do now, as it's about 15-20 years too late. Even if the best Simpsons writers had stayed on, they'd probably have run out of good ideas for these characters in their stasis a long time ago.
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Nov 16, 2019 17:50
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They had that period where they were making some changes to the show like Barney getting sober and Milhouse's parents breaking up but IIRC the next showrunner hated that stuff and undid it.
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Nov 16, 2019 18:33
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They can't retired characters because they apparently can't develop new ones.iamsosmrt posted:If the show had evolved at all and maybe did something logical like age the characters X years, maybe they could've invigorated a lot of the voice cast with fresh people. Someone wrote a think piece after the "Holidays of Future Passed" like 7 years ago that argued for aging the characters up to that future. It probably wouldn't be as bad as it currently is.
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Nov 16, 2019 19:20
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When’s the last time they developed a new reoccurring side character? The judge that’s played by the Malcom in the Middle mom?
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Nov 16, 2019 19:46
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SeANMcBAY posted:When’s the last time they developed a new reoccurring side character? The judge that’s played by the Malcom in the Middle mom? Wikipedia's list seems weirdly incomplete, but the last recurring character on it is Francesca, Sideshow Bob's Italian wife who debuted in 2005. Did the judge come back? I don't recall her being more than a single-episode cameo. Bart has had a few recurring teachers since Krabapple died, but they're all completely unnotable.
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Nov 16, 2019 19:56
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What about that adopted girl from China that Selma adopted that was based around the writer's real adopted daughter from China and when he triumphantly revealed it to her was shocked that she wasnt jumping up and down excited to ve the inspiration of beloved Simpsons character Ling Bouvier
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Nov 17, 2019 03:19
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Doesn’t comic book guy marry some Japanese girl and she becomes a reoccurring character too? That sounds terrible.
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Nov 17, 2019 03:28
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SeANMcBAY posted:Doesn’t comic book guy marry some Japanese girl and she becomes a reoccurring character too? That sounds terrible. Ah good call. Kimiko. Debuted in 2014.
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Nov 17, 2019 05:14
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Welp, Simpsons world has been shut down for Disney+. Does anyone know of the episode commentaries are available on disney+? That was the best feature of Simpsons world.
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Nov 17, 2019 18:27
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The commentaries where they bring their infant children are less good I’m sure the kids are old enough now to be totally embarrassed by it
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Nov 18, 2019 17:21
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:The commentaries where they bring their infant children are less good Definitely, but a ton o the commentaries are really interesting and often very funny too. They're really nice ways to watch episodes I've seen a million times. Or were, anyways. Sure, all the nerds on the internet complaining that a joke or two are cut off via the crappy aspect ratio once every four or five episodes, but nobody's complaining that we lost hundreds of episodes of dvd commentary.
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Nov 18, 2019 18:30
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The commentaries are informative and interesting depending who’s doing them. Also interesting when you can tell some audio has been cut for legal purposes. In one of the early ones James L Brooks starts off with “it was a great deal for Fox...” (having a number one show/phenomenon and getting to pay for much less due to how the show was scheduled against Cosby) then a long silence where you just know he’s railing against the management for loving them over in the early years Now of course the show is literally an unstoppable money printing machine so I’m sure there are no hurt feelings.
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Nov 18, 2019 19:15
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Milo and POTUS posted:Patty (or selma) gets a little worked up watching Marge cut wood. It's weird ew what the gently caress PostNouveau posted:Ah good call. Kimiko. Debuted in 2014. since i am old as dirt, my guess was manjula 
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Nov 19, 2019 01:28
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One thing that would make introducing new characters a difficult thing to do and that's the art style. Any time that they now try to do one-time characters or celebrity appearances, they draw those people in that kind of new "realistic" style of the Simpsons. The regular characters now look like mutant freaks compared to newer ones and any attempt to incorporate one of those new characters into the main canon would probably look and feel offputting.
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Nov 19, 2019 02:05
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In the new one, the Simpsons go to Costa Rica with the Van Houtens, the Hibbards, Superintendent Chalmers and his daughter Shauna, and Patty and her new Southern girlfriend. Homer bonds with with Patty's girlfriend, who turns out to be a drunk glutton like him. Lisa overhears how expensive the trip is and spends the whole time anxious about the cost. They discover Kirk's family actually owns the place and he's been ripping off everyone he invites there for years. Bad ep, don't watch.
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Nov 19, 2019 02:23
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The lowest point of The Simpsons was Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes by assuming a CEO could ever become homeless after tanking a company rather than getting a billion dollar parachute and doing it all over at a different one.
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Nov 20, 2019 14:09
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Detective No. 27 posted:The lowest point of The Simpsons was Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes by assuming a CEO could ever become homeless after tanking a company rather than getting a billion dollar parachute and doing it all over at a different one. I think he was the owner (now thats an archaic concept in itself) but the point stands that its a particularly dumb episode.
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Nov 20, 2019 15:07
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I went to Popeyes today, for the first time in my life cause the hype finally died down and I wanted to try ~the sandwich~ I put on The Simpsons while eating it and ironically the next episode to start up was A Streetcar Named Marge. The sandwich was alright. Nowhere near stabbing a man over.
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